Highlights from the Competition Bureau’s Workshop on Emerging Competition Issues

Competition Bureau Canada, here. 

Copyright, Competition, and the Digital Single Market

P. Ibanez Colomo, here, 

Google nimmt Anzeigen direkt auf seine Seite

FAZ, hier. 

Passenger rail services: competition policy project

CMA, here. 

ACLU Urges Feds To Adopt Privacy Rules For Broadband And Cable

FastCompany, here. 

Did Apple do a shady deal to get more movies/music in the Middle East?

VentureBeat, here. 

IAB Creates Guide for Publishers to Combat Ad Blocking

AdAge.com, here. 

Complaint regarding unfair contractual terms in the Terms of Use for the mobile application Tinder

 Norwegian Consumer Council, here.

Does working at Google give you access to the data of users?

B. White, here.

(In the "good reasons" we trust).

Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) - the flipside of CRM

Diginomica, here. 

Instagram blocks links to Snapchat and Telegram

TheGuardian, here. 

"Facebook ist ein Monopolist"

FAZ, hier. 

U.S. Chamber of Commerce sues Seattle over Uber, Lyft ordinance

Reuters, here. 

Antitrust and 'Big Data': New Terrain for Inquiry?

S. Goldfein, J. Keyte, here. 

The Apparent Androidopoly Antitrust Case

S. Cleland, here. 

Bundeskartellamt eröffnet Verfahren gegen Facebook wegen Verdachts auf Marktmachtmissbrauch durch Datenschutzverstöße

Bundeskartellamt, hier.

Living in a future Big Data world: can prosperity, freedom and fundamental rights be reconciled?

G. Buttarelli, here.

Adblock's business model

Adblockplus, here.

Patent Litigation in China: Protecting Rights or the Local Economy?

B. Love, C. Helmers, M. Eberhardt, here.

Robots in American Law

R. Calo,  here.

Apple Backdoor Case: A Code With A Viewpoint?

NYTimes,  here.

Disney CEO asks employees to chip in to pay copyright lobbyists

ArsTechnica, here.

Google Unveils Neural Network with “Superhuman” Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image

TechnologyReview,here.

Competition Challenges in the Consumer Internet Industry

CEP, here.

Mitigating the existing imbalance between data-rich and data-poor companies

G. Oettinger,  here.

Google’s AMP Is Speeding Up the Web By Changing How It Works

Wired, here. 

Bruxelles adresse ses critiques à l’encontre du projet de loi Lemaire

NextImpact, here.

Quick Take on Justice Scalia’s Legacy on Antitrust Law

A. Naik, Here.

Daten­schutz im Check: Viele Hintertüren bei Google, Netflix & Co

Stiftung Warentest, hier. 

CMA responses to consultations on the Digital Single Market (all in one place)

CMA, here. 

Landgericht Berlin: Urteil im Kartellrechtsstreit von Presseverlagen gegen Google (PM 14/2016)

Berlin.de, hier.

Sci-Hub: How Does It Work?

Scholarlykitchen, here.

Making communications work for everyone

Ofcom, here. 

The new new competition - How digital platforms change competitive strategy

M. Van Alstyne, S. Choudary, G. Parker, Presentation here. 

The right way—and wrong way—for cities to regulate Uber

Macleans.ca, here. 

Google AMP Is Less About Beating Facebook at News, More About Gobbling Up the Mobile Web

Recode, here. 

Streetmap.EU Limited v Google

J. Morrison, here. 

Fed Up With Uber And Lyft, Drivers Plan To Launch Competing App

FastCompany, here. 

Business models in the Peer-to-peer economy

P. Belleflamme, Presentation here. 

Government must help end 'heartbreaking' Amazon dominance, former Number 10 adviser says

TheTelegraph, here.

Google weiß, wo die Deutschen surfen

FAZ, hier.

Cyanogen’s New MOD Platform Will Allow Developers To Deeply Integrate Their Apps Into Its OS

TechCrunch, here. 

Why Authors Alliance Supports A Broader View Of Fair Use Than The Authors Guild

P. Samuelson, here. 

Uber and the economic impact of sharing economy platforms

Bruegel, here. 

The making available right in the United States

Register of Copyrights, here. 

Western Union Questioned by EU in Money-Transfer Antitrust Probe

Bloomberg.com, here. 

Google Faces More EU Woes, Attorneys General Ask FTC To Revive Case In US

MarketingLand, here. 

The Montcalm Mystery: Comparison widgets on hotels' websites and Booking.com

TNooz, here. 

Google Is Closing Google Compare, Its Financial Services Comparison Service

TechCrunch, here.

Meet the Fixers Collective: the geeks who are fixing iPhones for free

TheVerge, here.

What's Next?

C. Dixon, here.

Looking back and moving on

NewYorker, here.

Stack is the new Platform

labs.sogeti.com, here.

Why Is IBM Buying Ad Agencies?

Fool.com, here.

Google's Jigsaw project has new ideas, but an old imperial mindset

J. Poles, here.

New research shows UK online alternative finance market grew to £3.2 billion in 2015

Nesta, here.

Antitrust Experts Debate Apple’s Supreme Court Bid

PublishersWeekly, here.

The opportunities and ethics of big data

Royal Statistical Society, here. 

Streetmap v Google: lessons for pending Article 102 TFEU cases (including Google itself)

ChillingCompetition, here. 

PTO Weighs In on Digital First Sale

Copyrightandtechnology.com, here.

U.S.-EU Data Privacy: From Safe Harbor to Privacy Shield

US Congressional Research Service, here.

Competition Commission of India suspects Monsanto abused dominant position

Timesofindia, here.

Getting Around Section 230

E. Goldman, audio here; slides here. . 

How will acceding to the Marrakesh Treaty benefit Canadians?

Government of Canada, here. 

World’s cheapest Android smartphone goes on sale for just $3.67

ArsTechnica, here.

Netflix says going global has improved its personal recommendations

VentureBeat, here. 

Données personnelles : le virulent réquisitoire de la CNIL contre Facebook

Le Monde, ici.

A message to our customers regarding backdoors

Apple, here.

Linux and White House together to improve open source security

CIO.com, here. 

Nothing Is Free, Not Even Facebook Free Basics

O. Malik, here. 

What if we don’t need advertising at all?

D. Searls, here.

AU: Options to strengthen the misuse of market power law

Submissions here.
ACCC here. 

Platforms, is there a need to regulate?

Digital4EU 2016, Thursday 25 February 2016, 16:15 – 17:25, webstream here..

Juno hasn’t even launched, but it’s already creeping me out with its data collection

Medium.com, here. 

Stealth Startup Juno Will Take On Uber By Treating Drivers Better

Forbes, here. 

Why does everybody hate competition so much?

C. Sagers, here. 

Uber CEO delivers stinging attack to city regulators at TED

Wired, here. 

It’s time to break the teeth-whitening monopoly

Washington Post, here.

European Union Competition Law in the Digital Era

M. Kadar, here. 

CCI rejects complaints of unfair practices against Ola, Uber

Moneycontrol, here.
Orders here and here.

So dynamisch sind die Preise im Netz

WISO, hier. 

The hidden traps in the Apple ebook case

R. Epstein, here.

"Prices will be the same"

S. Jobs, Video here.

A.I. and virtual reality may propel future of retail

Computerworld, here.

Before It 'Unlocks the Box,' The FCC Must Solve This Pricing Puzzle

Forbes, here. 

How the Rest of Tech Is Playing Catch-Up to Facebook and Google in Artificial Intelligence

Recode, here.

Kik Battles Facebook With Bots In The New Messaging Wars

Forbes, here.

‘Patent trolls’ on the prowl for ‘smart’ product providers

FT, here.

How this company tracked 16,000 Iowa caucus-goers via their phones

Fusion.net, here.

Asics zieht gegen Bundeskartellamt vor Gericht

Market-intern, hier.
 Fallbericht,  hier.
OLG Frankfurt Entscheidung hier.

FCC chairman talks set-top boxes, consumers' right to choose

Washington Post, Video here.

UK's Streetmap loses 'anticompetitive' search abuse case against Google

The Guardian, here.
Decision here.

Microsoft retreats from EU antitrust fight against Google (?)

ArsTechnica, here. 

74 OEMs pre-install MS apps and services on Android devices

BusinessInsider, here.

(OEMs/MS agreements anyone?)

Personal data in exchange for free services: an unhappy partnership?

Norwegian Data Protection Authority, here.

The European Collaborative Economy Industry to the Presidency of the EU Council

Letter, here.

(Inspiring list of signatories).

Error 53 lawsuit

Here.

'Pay for delay' fined in the UK

CMA, here.

Facebook and the New Colonialism

The Atlantic, here.

Online Platforms and the EU Digital Single Market: Mydex supplementary evidence

Mydex, here.